The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for the Albanese Government to widen reforms to address the growing threat of hate speech, discrimination and vilification.

The Human Rights Law Centre and refugee advocates have criticised the Albanese Government’s cruel attacks on migrant and refugee communities, after some of the most brutal migration laws Australia has seen in years were passed overnight.

Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre have denounced the Crisafulli Government’s gob-smacking laws that will mean ten-year-old children will face adult sentences and grow up in prison cells. The shameful changes will further exacerbate the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in watch houses and prisons. 

Human rights, unions and civil society groups are calling on the Albanese Government to take stronger action on modern slavery, after the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery sounded the alarm in a report released today.    

The Human Rights Law Centre has called for urgent reform to whistleblowing and secrecy laws, following the Albanese Government’s largely-positive response to an independent review of Australia’s general secrecy regime, accepting recommendations which will better protect whistleblowers and journalists. 

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for the abolition of the Form 1 “protest permit” system after NSW Police arrested 170 people peacefully protesting the world’s largest coal port at Rising Tide in Newcastle over the weekend. 

The Human Rights Law Centre is urging Parliament not to pass the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2004, which would ban people under the age of 16 from using social media.

The Human Rights Law Centre will call for the Albanese Government to abandon its brutal deportation and surveillance laws, in evidence to a Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry this evening.  

The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed the Albanese Government announcement of plans to introduce a digital duty of care for social media platforms.

A new joint report from the Human Rights Law Centre and the University of Melbourne: Prison to Deportation Pipeline has found that visa cancellations on ‘character grounds’ have increased tenfold in the last ten years.

The Human Rights Law Centre has strongly condemned the NSW Premier Chris Minns’ latest attempt to stifle peaceful protest. 

Civil society groups have welcomed the Albanese Government’s appointment of Chris Evans as Australia’s first national, independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner.